Processes controlling the composition and abundance of Arctic aerosol

MD Willis, WR Leaitch, JPD Abbatt - Reviews of Geophysics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic region is a harbinger of global change and is warming at a rate higher than the
global average. While Arctic warming is driven by increases in anthropogenic greenhouse …

Rapid reduction in black carbon emissions from China: evidence from 2009–2019 observations on Fukue Island, Japan

Y Kanaya, K Yamaji, T Miyakawa… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
A long-term, robust observational record of atmospheric black carbon (BC) concentrations at
Fukue Island for 2009–2019 was produced by unifying the data from a continuous soot …

Chemical characteristics, distribution patterns, and source apportionment of particulate elements and inorganic ions in snowpack in Harbin, China

Z Song, L Zhang, C Tian, K Li, P Chen, Z Jia, P Hu… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Snowpack, which serves as a natural archive of atmospheric deposition of multiple
pollutants, is a practical environmental media that can be used for assessing atmospheric …

Recent advances in quantifying wet scavenging efficiency of black carbon aerosol

Y Yang, Y Fu, Q Lin, F Jiang, X Lian, L Li, Z Wang… - Atmosphere, 2019 - mdpi.com
Black carbon (BC) aerosol is of great importance not only for its strong potential in heating
air and impacts on cloud, but also because of its hazards to human health. Wet deposition is …

Factors controlling black carbon distribution in the Arctic

L Qi, Q Li, Y Li, C He - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
We investigate the sensitivity of black carbon (BC) in the Arctic, including BC concentration
in snow (BC snow, ng g− 1) and surface air (BC air, ng m− 3), as well as emissions, dry …

Observations and model simulations of snow albedo reduction in seasonal snow due to insoluble light-absorbing particles during 2014 Chinese survey

X Wang, W Pu, Y Ren, X Zhang, X Zhang… - Atmospheric …, 2017 - acp.copernicus.org
A snow survey was carried out to collect 13 surface snow samples (10 for fresh snow, and 3
for aged snow) and 79 subsurface snow samples in seasonal snow at 13 sites across …

Water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) and its temperature-resolved carbon fractions in atmospheric aerosols in Beijing

X Tang, X Zhang, Z Wang, Z Ci - Atmospheric Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Investigation of temperature-resolved carbon fractions of water-soluble organic carbon
(WSOC) can improve our understanding of the chemical properties, formation processes …

Black carbon deposition and storage in peat soils of the Changbai Mountain, China

C Gao, KH Knorr, Z Yu, J He, S Zhang, X Lu, G Wang - Geoderma, 2016 - Elsevier
Black carbon (BC) is produced by incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass and
emissions are influenced by human activities. Due to its refractory nature and long half-life …

Elemental carbon, organic carbon, and dust concentrations in snow measured with thermal optical and gravimetric methods: Variations during the 2007–2013 winters …

K Kuchiki, T Aoki, M Niwano, S Matoba… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The mass concentrations of light‐absorbing snow impurities at Sapporo, Japan, were
measured during six winters from 2007 to 2013. Elemental carbon (EC) and organic carbon …

Historical trends of atmospheric black carbon on Sanjiang Plain as reconstructed from a 150-year peat record

C Gao, Q Lin, S Zhang, J He, X Lu, G Wang - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Black carbon (BC), one of the major components of atmosphere aerosol, could be the
second dominant driver of climate change. We reconstructed historical trend of BC fluxes in …